Seek & Blastn

1) Choose a pdf file to seek nucleotide sequences in via the
"Choose a file..." button.

2) Then check nucleotide sequence
identities by pressing the
"Search for sequences" button





For a guide on how to use Seek & Blastn, consider going through the protocol

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Publications

The problematic papers flagged by Seek & Blastn and reported in the following articles are tabulated at the PPP:

Identification of human gene research articles with wrongly identified nucleotide sequences.


Park, Y., West, R.A., Pathmendra, P., Favier, B., Stoeger, T., Capes-Davis, A., Cabanac, G., Labbé, C., Byrne, J.A. (2022)
Life Science Alliance. https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202101203, 5(4), e202101203.

The thin ret(raction) line: biomedical journal responses to incorrect non-targeting nucleotide sequence reagents in human gene knockdown publications.


Byrne, J.A., Park, Y., West, R.A., Capes-Davis, A., Favier, B., Cabanac, G., Labbé, C. (2021)
Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03871-9, 126(4), 3513–3534.

Flagging incorrect nucleotide sequence reagents in biomedical papers: To what extent does the leading publication format impede automatic error detection?


Labbé, C., Cabanac, G., West, R.A., Gauthier, T., Favier, B., Byrne, J.A. (2020)
Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03463-z, 124(2), 1139–1156.

Semi-automated fact-checking of nucleotide sequence reagents in biomedical research publications: The Seek & Blastn tool.


Labbé, C., Grima, N., Gauthier, T., Favier, B., Byrne, J.A. (2019)
PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213266, 14(3), e0213266.

Striking similarities between publications from China describing single gene knockdown experiments in human cancer cell lines.


Byrne, J.A., Labbé, C. (2017)
Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2209-6, 110(3), 1471–1493.


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Cyril Labbé

Jennifer Byrne

Guillaume Cabanc

Bertrand Favier

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